[ROM][4.4.4][10/21] SlimSaber - i9100

[fusionjack]

SlimSaber i9100 Uber 4.8

Making SlimKat more faster and smoother​

SlimSaber: Uber toolchain 4.8.4
SlimKernel: Uber toolchain 4.9.4​

Disclaimer
I'm not responsible for any damages on your device.

It comes from my hobby to building rom that is actually for private use and then some users found it on my goo.im. Due to some suggestions from them (rkoby13 is one of them ), I decided to create this thread to share my builds with you.
My focus is to optimize the ROM in many areas and compiled it with custom toolchain Uber for more performance and smoothness.
I choose SlimRoms as a base because it is a lightweight and not a bloated ROM, but it still has rich features. Combined with some of CM features, I bake a ROM that has more useful features but still lightweight.
The ROM and the kernel are tested by me first before I make it available online. I could have overseen something during testing, please be understand.

Features summary
See here. Thanks a lot Harsha Raj!

Installation instructions
Coming from 4.1.x or 4.2.x or 4.3.x or another ROM to 4.4.x:

• Flash a kitkat compatible recovery from here. A kernel is a recovery and a recovery is a kernel.
• Reboot to recovery. Not to the system!
• Full wipe: data, cache, dalvik cache.
• Mount system and format system partition manually.
• Flash the unofficial build.
• Flash gapps from here. Please use the 'minimal' one since our system partition is not big enough to carry the 'full' one.

Coming from previous unofficial build:

• Wipe cache and dalvik cache.
• Flash the unofficial build.
• No need to re-flash gapps. Gapps will be restored back automatically by backup tool during flashing.

Another version of full wipe/dirty flashing from Hopper8

Known Issues

• See this post.

F.A.Q
See second post.

Latest release
Latest 4.4.4: 20151021
Latest 4.4.3: 20140616
Latest 4.4.2: 20140604

Full Changelog
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Credits
SlimRoms - The SlimRom team
zzmoove governor - ZaneZam
Uber toolchain - Cl3Kener
SlimSaber banner and signatures - kroz

Special Thanks
HardCorePawn - for his great work making the SlimKat available on i9100 device.
Dorimanx - for patches to disable sqlite fsync.

Sources
https://github.com/SlimSaber

How To Build
See this post

 

[fusionjack]

F.A.Q (Freaking Annoying Questions)

Battery percentage drops frequently after boot

The full gauge needs to be reset. See here how to do it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55371824&postcount=15027

How to disable CellBroadcastReceiver

There are three possibilities to disable it:

• Disable its setting: See here
• Remove it: Settings - SlimCenter - SlimSizer - Delete CellBroadcastReceiver
• Freeze it: Use Titanium Backup and freeze 'Mobile Broadcast'

Root doesn't work!

• Enable 'Developer options'
  • Go to Settings -> About Phone
  • Tap on the Build Number 7 times
• Go to Settings -> Developer options -> Root access
• Choose 'Apps' or 'Apps and ADB'

How to set zzmoove profile

Available zzmoove profiles:

1. Default
   Will set governor defaults
2. Yank Battery
   A very good battery/performance balanced setting - DEV-NOTE: highly recommended! -
3. Yank Battery Extreme
   Like yank battery but focus on battery saving
4. ZaneZam Battery
   A more 'harsh' setting strictly focused on battery saving - DEV-NOTE: might give some lags! -
5. ZaneZam Battery Plus
   NEW! reworked 'faster' battery setting - DEV-NOTE: recommended too! -
6. ZaneZam Moderate
   NEW! setting based on 'ZaneZam Optimized' which has mainly (but not strictly only!) 2 cores online -
7. ZaneZam Optimized
   Balanced setting with no focus in any direction - DEV-NOTE: relict from back in the days, even though some people still like it! -
8. ZaneZam Performance
   All you can get from zzmoove in terms of performance but still has the fast - down scaling/hotplugging behaving
9. ZaneZam InZane
   NEW! based on performance with new insane scaling active. a new experience!
10. ZaneZam Gaming
    NEW! based on performance with scaling block enabled to avoid cpu overheating during gameplay

How to set the zzmoove profile:

• Go to Settings - Advanced options - Performance - choose zzmoove governor
• Press menu key and choose Governor Settings
• Search for 'profile_number' and pick a number from above
• Press 'Apply values' and eventually enable 'Apply on boot'

Only profile_number can be persisted, any other gov settings will be changed based on the chosen profile template.

* Media scanner eating my battery
* CPU stuck at 1.2 GHz
* Random music player stop

For media scanner problem, try this following solution first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47868557, also see this.
At these problems could have the same root cause: The kitkat sdcard fuse daemon issue on the Exynos 4210 family of devices. There is no fix yet. See this thread for more information.

How to check corrupt partition

See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50264173&postcount=9137

I have excessive RILJ wakelocks

See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50227440&postcount=9049
and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50758124&postcount=9790

My recovery won't flash the 4.4 zip... aka "Status 7 error"... what do I do?

You need a kitkat compatible cwm. See installation instructions in 1st op

How to change DPI?

Currently, this feature hasn't been ported... so you'll need to install Texdroider DPI from the playstore... or edit /system/build.prop and change ro.sf.lcd_density to the desired value

Stuck at the Samsung logo

Follow this steps to get rid of the stuck and to have back your valuable data:

• Go to recovery and make a twrp/cwm backup.
• Do a full wipe + mount system + format system.
• Flash the rom + gapps.
• Reboot to rom and skip the setup wizard.
• Go to recovery again and advance restore your data only.
• Reboot.

My timezone is reset and it is wrong

See this workaround from rkoby13 or eskriminal here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45572515&postcount=2668

What is Toolchain?

In software, a toolchain is the set of programming tools that are used to create a product (typically another computer program or system of programs). The tools may be used in a chain, so that the output of each tool becomes the input for the next, but the term is used widely to refer to any set of linked development tools.
A simple software development toolchain consists of a compiler and linker to transform the source code into an executable program, libraries to provide interfaces to the operating system, and a debugger. A complex product such as a video game needs tools for preparing sound effects, music, textures, 3-dimensional models, and animations, and further tools for combining these resources into the finished product.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolchain

What is SaberMod?

The term "SaberMod" is coming from:

SaberMod is a AOSP based ROM with some extra features added in and mostly from CyanogenMod. SaberMod started out pure AOSP when android 4.2.1 launched. Originally it was pure AOSP with a few extra features I ported over from CyanogeMod and linaro optimizations. Then I rebased everything off of rasbeanjelly because I liked many features found in rasbean. Since then I've modified a lot of the code so not much of it is rasbeanjelly based anymore. But you will still find some commonly used features found in rasbeanjelly. SaberMod is not a rasbeanjelly or CM clone, or KANG. Custom kernels are included for certain devices when available. These are personal builds we make for ourselves and originally became very popular in the nexus 7 forums. Features are very rarely added, and are built to SaberMod's team members liking. Currently there are two members of SaberMod working on this project. Myself and @jarjar124 . Please understand our time is limited and we are only two people who have lives, and do not have 25-50 members like CyanogenMod to add things. And our goal is not to add a bunch of features that bloat the system of the ROM.

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158698

What is Linaro?

Linaro is the place where engineers from the world's leading technology companies define the future of Linux on ARM. The company is a not-for-profit engineering organization with over 120 engineers working on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphics and multimedia interfaces.

Source: http://www.linaro.org/linux-on-arm/

 

[fusionjack]

Goodies

Radio cleaner

If you have signal dropping problem or once messing with your RIL, flash this to return to the OpenRIL: http://d-h.st/LqZ (Credit to codeworkx)
It flashes also the LS8 modem.

KrozMod Collection

A theme collections by kroz, visit his thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960233

Signatures by kroz

SlimSaber

SaberMod SlimRoms

Download here: http://d-h.st/users/kroz/?fld_id=25717#files

Bootanimation by kroz

Download here: http://d-h.st/users/kroz/?fld_id=28876#files
More information about this bootanimation, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47920976&postcount=5592

Bootanimation by thereald

Download here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2499512

 

[Mr_S]

Nice work mate,I am downloading now and will post my thoughts. Thumbs up



Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[diddly3000]

What does saber mod Toolchain do mate?

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[ohwarumbloss]

Downloading and very curious
Thanks for your efforts!

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[leechseed]

Anyone could supply some OpenPDroid patches? Thanks
Or could you implement them @fusionjack?

Cant wait to test - downloading...

Greetz
SlimBean-6.2|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2

 

[fusionjack]

What does saber mod Toolchain do mate?

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

its job is to compile libs and some other stuff with some optimizations. as result, the rom could be smoother or faster. whether it is a placebo or not, you decide it.

 

[fusionjack]

Anyone could supply some OpenPDroid patches? Thanks
Or could you implement them @fusionjack?

Cant wait to test - downloading...

Greetz
SlimBean-6.2|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2

Since unofficial build 20130602, Slimbean has merged CM's privacy guard. I don't think another 'privacy' thing is necessary.

 

[diddly3000]

its job is to compile libs and some other stuff with some optimizations. as result, the rom could be smoother or faster. whether it is a placebo or not, you decide it.

Ok I guess I will decide downloading

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---------- Post added at 01:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 PM ----------

Will I flash this build with slim 6.xx gapps?

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[leechseed]

Since unofficial build 20130602, Slimbean has merged CM's privacy guard. I don't think another 'privacy' thing is necessary.

Ok didnt know that
Nice gimmick but its lacking on personal settings - i checked it but i still prefer pdroid as i can set almost anything with the pdroid manager, not only contacts, messages & call logs

Greetz
SlimBean-FJ03/07|i9100¬Tapa2

 

[fusionjack]

Will I flash this build with slim 6.xx gapps?

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

If you dirty-flash over the official one, you don't need to flash gapps. gapps is automatically backed up prior to flashing ROM.
If you do full-wipe, then you need to flash gapps after flashing ROM.

You can consider these builds are nightly and the builds from the official thread are stable and weekly. So the same rules are applied and forget the toolchain thing.

 

[m1trand1r]

If you dirty-flash over the official one, you don't need to flash gapps. gapps is automatically backed up prior to flashing ROM.
If you do full-wipe, then you need to flash gapps after flashing ROM.

You can consider these builds are nightly and the builds from the official thread are stable and weekly. So the same rules are applied and forget the toolchain thing.

it's good to flash upgrade package for build 6.x tho

Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 6.9 Unofficial (20130703) SaberMod 4.9 by fusionjack<< powered BY >>DorimanX kernel 9.34<<

 

[fusionjack]

it's good to flash upgrade package for build 6.x tho

Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 6.9 Unofficial (20130703) SaberMod 4.9 by fusionjack<< powered BY >>DorimanX kernel 9.34<<

oh, didn't notice that. thanks.

 

[fusionjack]

Ok didnt know that
Nice gimmick but its lacking on personal settings - i checked it but i still prefer pdroid as i can set almost anything with the pdroid manager, not only contacts, messages & call logs

Greetz
SlimBean-FJ03/07|i9100¬Tapa2

yeah, I heard that pdroid can basically do more than cm's privacy guard or other things. I didn't follow the discussion.

 

[fusionjack]

@wonsky21:
to answer your question from official thread: the unofficial build 20130701 has already the newest mali r3p1-01rel1 May 13.

 

[leechseed]

yeah, I heard that pdroid can basically do more than cm's privacy guard or other things. I didn't follow the discussion.

Ok

Will you stick to cm guard or will you go for pdroid?
Like this modded rootbox comes straight patched:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42234394

Greetz
SlimBean-FJ-03/07|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2

 

[fusionjack]

Ok

Will you stick to cm guard or will you go for pdroid?
Like this modded rootbox comes straight patched:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42234394

Greetz
SlimBean-FJ-03/07|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2

i'll stick with cm pg, because i don't think we can have both in the rom. even if we can have them both, it looks to me like to have two antivirus software.
there is too many changes if i want to revert cm's pg which could break here and there. so better to stick with cm's pg.

 

[fusionjack]

Btw, if you guys have problem with gps, you can try to flash the static navigation gps lib that I put on OP.
I usually flash this after flashing ROM. I find I can get gps fix easily with this lib.

 

[wonsky21]

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